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The Medieval Feast

 While learning about kings and queens, we had a medieval feast with our playgroup friends. It was so fun, probably more fun for us mommies than for the kiddos. I kind of geeked out in the preparation when I found this medieval recipe website. We had a roasted chicken, parsnip pie, saffron vermicelli (or bowtie pasta), canel cucumber, apple muse, and wassail (apple cider). We proceeded into the dining room by family and served the food in courses with entertainment like someone telling a joke or doing a dance in between courses. Then we showed them some clips of "A Knight's Tale" for the jousting and then did our own jousting! It was so fun.

Royalty

We finished up the unit on Kings and Queens and it was so fun! Caley chose to research Queen Victoria. She picked her out of a book of princesses such as Marie Antoinette and Queen Elizabeth. We took the research project very slowly, first checking out books from the library, then looking through them, then synthesizing information from them (and the internet) into a list, studying the list, choosing pictures from the book for each item we learned, photocopying the pictures, then making a poster with the pictures and the information we listed. Caley presented her poster at playgroup in front of her friends. She did very well, with my help. It was good practice for her!
During the unit we made swords and shields and studied the armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18) and we made a sugar cube castle. The girls were so excited about the castle! And they snitched the sugar, surprise surprise  (so did Mommy).
We've also been doing math and are moving into money and we set up a store. We also did a painting day and I just let the girls create! I was impressed with their artistic creativity. I love these children.

During the unit we also did some playgroup activities and we did a medieval feast! That was the best part. Pictures will be added soon.

We have since moved onto learning about military and general obedience. So the last few weeks have been kind of relaxed. It's been nice after a few weeks of crazy time. Caley helped me in the kitchen cutting strawberries and her new job is clearing the table. Woohoo!